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History
Name HMAT A30 Borda
Builder/Built 1913 Caird & Company, Greenock
Type Passenger / cargo (refrigerated)
Displacement 11,136 tons
Speed 14 knots


Remarks

Built for the Pacific & Orient Steam Navigation Company of London, and designed for the Australian emigrant service via Cape Town.


Leased by the Commonwealth until 10 Sep 1917 during which time it made 6 voyages from Australia with troops. On 19 Sep 1917 management was transferred to the British Admiralty. She was a part of the second convoy from Albany in December 1914.


In 1920 the Borda returned to civilian ownership and returned to Australian service. Her last trip from Australia was in 1929 after which she was laid up before being sold in April 1930 to Japan for demolition at Kobe.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Port Suez 26 April - ? May 1915

Alexandria to Mudros 18 - 21 October 1915

Port Suez to Fremantle 15 November - 13 December 1915

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 January - 9 February 1916

England to Fremantle 17 August - 16 September 1916

Fremantle to Plymouth 29 June - 25 August 1917

*John Laidlaw Paterson

Plymouth to Fremantle 26 September - 12 November 1917

England to Fremantle 5 April 1918 - 22 May 1918

England to Fremantle 9 December 1919 - 19 January 1920

England to Fremantle 9 December 1919 - 19 January 1920